Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus

Scientist, Author, Entrepreneur

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Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Robust.AI and was the founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016. He is the author of five books, including The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and The New York Times best seller Guitar Zero. He is also the editor of The Future of the Brain and The Norton Psychology Reader.

Marcus has published extensively in fields ranging from human and animal behavior to neuroscience, genetics, linguistics, evolutionary psychology, and artificial intelligence, often in leading journals such as Science and Nature. He is perhaps the youngest professor emeritus at New York University. His newest book, co-authored with Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Machines We Can Trust aims to shake up the field of artificial intelligence.

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Deep learning nails correlation. Causation is another matter.
Why do people with bigger hands have a better vocabulary? That's one question deep learning can't answer.
7 min
You should be skeptical when it comes to hyped-up AI. Here’s why.
These questions can help us think more critically about new developments in artificial intelligence.
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Machines probably aren’t interested in global takeover. Here’s why.
What most people worry about when it comes to artificial intelligence likely comes from science-fiction fantasy.
7 min
The biggest problem in AI? Machines have no common sense.
Correlation doesn't equal causation — we all know this. Well, except robots.